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CUNA supports the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s enterprise housing goals for 2018-2020, it wrote to the agency Tuesday. The 2018-2020 benchmarks for single family purchases remain essentially the same as in prior years.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency should work to ensure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac activities, including credit risk transfers, do not give advantages to lenders that conduct larger amount of business with the enterprises, CUNA believes.

CUNA met with Federal Housing Finance Agency Wednesday to urge the agency to reconsider adding language preference to its Uniform Residential Loan Application. This week 55 members of Congress sent a letter to FHFA Director Mel Watt with concerns.

CUNA joined with several other trade organizations this week to raise compliance and legal concerns with the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s potential change to the new Uniform Residential Loan Application asking borrowers to indicate their language preference.

WASHINGTON (3/18/16)--CUNA generally believes enabling and maximizing the purchasing and guaranteeing of private market loans is the best approach for the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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